PVT. ROBERT J. BAUER
The death of Private Robert J. Bauer, 22, United States Marine Corps, somewhere in the South Pacific war
zone, of intestinal fungus following malaria and dysentery, was announced in a
War Department
telegram to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George A. Bauer of Lake Altoona.

Private Bauer, who had seen active service against the Japanese, was stricken with malaria some weeks
ago but, according to a letter written by himself to his parents, had
improved considerably.

Private Bauer attended St. Patrick's and the senior high school here,
being graduated from the latter in 1939, and enlisted on June 1, 1942. He was home early
last fall before embarking for the Pacific war zone.

Survivors, besides his parents, are two sisters, Mrs. John A. Lund, Emery
Street, and Mrs. Joseph DuCette, Mappa Street, whose husband is in the
Army at Fort Sam Houston,
Texas. Private Bauer was engaged to Miss Verona E. Olson, daughter of Mr. and
Mrs. Oscar J. Olson, Sr., 613 Fall Street, and they had planned to marry last
fall but, due to the war situation and the illness of the boy's father, the
wedding was postponed.